It's not quite accurate that women were historically "not considered their own persons". There have been many, many places and times where women's rights were restricted in various ways, but I'm not sure there are any where all women were simply enslaved from birth.

Regarding Victorian England, I've written several past answers:

In Victorian England, who would gain control of a woman if all her close male relatives passed away?

Victorian Era Women's Rights in Estate Ownership through Wills/Contracts

What Options/Loopholes did Victorian Women Have for Owning Property After 1882? (And a couple of followup q's about sex work at the time).

And just in general, the section in my flair profile on nineteenth century women and their rights.